After my death our beloved Church abroad will break three ways ... first the Greeks will leave us as they were never a part of us ... then those who live for this world and its glory will go to Moscow ... what will remain will be those souls faithful to Christ and His Church.~St. Philaret of NY

A Chapter fromHistory of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, (a seminary textbook) translated from Russian by Isaac Lambertson for SJKP (available through SJKP, print-on-demand)

§ 18

A SHORT SURVEY OF THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE CHRISTIANS BY THE JEWS

THE FALLING AWAY OF THE JEWS

The leaders of the Jews, who, out of malice and hatred for the Lord Savior, had decided to crucify Him, were unable to leave His disciples in peace. Their persecution of the apostles began as soon as the preaching of the latter began to spread. But in the beginning, this persecution was halted by one of the most respected teachers of the Law, Gamaliel, and because of conflict between the Sadducee and Pharisee parties. Subsequently, the conversion to the Faith of one of the most powerful persecutors, Saul, straitened position of the Sanhedrin with regard to the Roman government, which was still indifferent to Christianity, resulted in the weakening and even cessation of open persecution of the Christians on the part of the Jews.

The grandson of the iniquitous Herod who had slain the infants of Bethlehem, Herod Agrippa, reestablished, through intrigues within the Roman government, the authority of the king in Palestine for a while; and, desiring to win favor with the Jews, he again initiated a cruel persecution against the Church, slew the Apostle James, son of Zebedee, and imprisoned the Apostle Peter. But the horrible death of this impious man (he was gnawed by worms from within) brought an end both to his life and to the persecution he had raised. After the death of Herod Agrippa, Judea was, as before, made subject to a Roman procurator, and the Jews, despite all their hatred for the Christians, were not able to do them any substantial harm. We can see an example of the Jews impotent malice in the history of the trial of the Apostle Paul. The High Priest Ananias had been able to bring about the death of the Apostle James, the brother of the Lord, only during a space of time when Rome had not yet reasserted its governmental authority. Finally, the measure of God's patience was filled, and the iniquitous Jewish people brought down punishment upon themselves. In the year 67 an unfortunate war began between the Jews and the Romans, and the Jews, as a separate people, were defeated.

The fall of the Jews was the righteous punishment for their crime of killing Christ and for the murder of the prophets and the apostles (see Matt. 23:23), and it is of important significance in the history of the Church in other respects as well: 1) in it was fulfilled the prophecies of Moses, Daniel, and other prophets, and the saying of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who foretold that Jerusalem would be surrounded by enemies and that not a stone would remain upon another at the site of the temple; 2) in the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple the Old Testament in fact came to an end; now the Jews have no temple, offer no sacrifices, and their faith does not lead to salvation; and 3) the fall of the Jews bears a special relation to the ultimate fate of the entire world. The Lord Jesus Christ, in His prediction, linked the destruction of Jerusalem with the destruction of the world which is to follow at the end of time, so that the former is, as it were, a prefigurement of the latter (see Matt. 24).

Especially unusual phenomena prefigured the destructive catastrophe for the Jews. Once, at about 1:00 at night, a light as bright as daylight was seen in the temple; on the feast of the Passover, the bronze eastern gates in the temple, which it was difficult for even twenty men to open, opened by themselves; on the feast of Pentecost an unusual noise was audible in the temple, like that made by the feet of a multitude of departing people, and a voice rang out: "We are leaving this place!" For an entire year, a comet was visible above Jerusalem, in the form of a sword; and furthermore, crowds of warriors were visible in the clouds in war chariots. For four years prior to the war, a certain Jew, by the name of Jesus, allegedly inspired from on high, began to cry out, walking among the people: "Woe to thee, O Jerusalem! Woe to thee, O Temple!" and other things. Yet the Jews were unable to be brought to their senses by anyone, and they hastened to their own destruction, entering upon a conflict unequal to their strength with the mighty Roman Empire.

The reasons for the Jewish War were: the extreme hatred of the Jews for the Romans and the cruelty of the Roman procurators toward the Jews. Considering themselves the chosen people, the seed of Abraham, the Jews were totally unable to reconcile themselves with the idea of being subject to pagans. A separate party of zealots formed among them, who considered war with the Romans to be the purpose of their life. On their part, the Roman procurators treated the Jews with cruelty, burdened them with heavy taxes, and offended their religious sensibilities without any need. Especially hated by the Jews were Pilate and the last two procurators: Albinus and Gessius Florus. To all of this was added intense yearning for the Messiah. The Jews were convinced that the Messiah would appear very soon in the temple to help His chosen people. In the words of Josephus Flavius, the historian of the Jewish War, some fatal power lured the people to their destruction, and he sees in this the predetermination of God.

In planning an uprising against the Romans, the Jews surrounded the fortress where the Roman garrison was located, and when, perishing from starvation, the Roman soldiers surrendered to the Jews, then, despite the promise of safety, they were all treacherously put to the sword. For this dishonorable deed, a multitude of Jews were slain in Caesaria and Alexandria. In retaliation, the Jews launched themselves at the cities along the Syrian border and robbed their inhabitants. Then the Roman proconsul, Cetius and Gallus, who lived in Antioch, moved against Palestine to put down the rebellion, and had already reached Jerusalem, but, loosing a minor battle and fearing a multitude of enemies, he, quite unexpectedly for the Jews, withdrew from the city. The Jews were extremely proud of their success and reveled in their favorite dreams of world dominion; but the Christians, mindful of the commandment of the Lord, on seeing the abomination of desolation in the temple (Matt. 24: 15-20), made use of their freedom to leave and departed for the most part to the trans-Jordanian city of Pellas.

The Emperor Nero, on hearing of the Jews opposition to Cestius, sent to Palestine his best military commander, Vespasian, with an immense army. Vespasian quickly conquered Galilee and pushed on to Jerusalem. At that time, Nero died, and subsequently three emperors succeeded one another within the space of a year's time, and the Syrian army declared their general to be emperor. Vespasian then made haste to Rome and entrusted the further conduct of the siege to his son, Titus. This general, knowing that because of the feast of Passover, many Jews would be gathering in Jerusalem (perhaps as many as 2 million), and desiring to cut off the supplies of edible stores to the city, surrounded the entire city with a rampart, so that it would not be possible to leave or to enter. Horrible tribulations began in Jerusalem: foodstuffs were quickly consumed, and such horrible starvation set in that a certain mother, tormented by hunger, butchered and ate her own newborn infant. Sickness spread, and people began to die in such numbers that they were impossible to bury, nor was there anywhere to bury them. More than 150,000 corpses were thrown out of one of the city's gates. Many of the Jews fled from the city right into the hands of the enemy, and they were crucified on crosses. More than 500 crosses were set up around the city, hung with crucified Jews, and their mindless oath, "Let His blood be upon us and our children", was visibly fulfilled. Before long there were not enough trees to provide wood for more crosses. Then Titus commanded that the refugees be received and given food to eat; but, wasted away by starvation, the Jews threw themselves upon the bread with such greediness that they died of overeating. After a long siege and unsuccessful negotiations for surrender, Titus began an all-out assault, ordering his soldiers to take the temple, which was considered a marvel of art. After terrific exertions, they took the city, but were unable to take the temple. On August 10, A.D. 70, the building caught fire because of an accidentally dropped burning log. Jerusalem was destroyed. All that remained of the former glory of the city were a portion of the western wall and three towers. Titus was astonished on seeing what a stronghold he had succeeded in taking and destroying; and he refused to accept the usual popular congratulations on the occasion of the victory, considering himself the instrument of the wrath of the gods.

Terrible was the lot of the Jews who survived the fall of their native city. About 12,000 died of starvation shortly after the capture of the city, before Titus was able to do anything for the living. The leaders of the rebels were executed. 700 of the most handsome youths were selected to adorn the victor's triumphal procession on his return to Rome. A multitude of Jews were sent as slaves to work in the mines and were sold in the markets of Asia, Africa and Europe.

Here are a few of the predictions of the Prophet Moses, in which, 1,500 years before, he depicted the tribulations of the Jews with striking accuracy. "Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God..., thou shalt serve thine enemies,... in hunger, and in thirst, and in want of all things" (Deut. 28: 27, 2 ). "The Lord shall bring upon thee a nation from the extremity of the earth, like the swift flying of an eagle, a nation whose voice thou shalt not understand; a nation bold in countenance, which shall not respect the person of the aged and shall not pity the young" (Deut. 28: 49-50). "And they shall utterly crush thee in thy cities, until the high and strong walls be destroyed, in which thou trustest" (v. 52). "And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot hath not assayed to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter,... for she shall eat them because of the want of all things, secretly in thy straitness, and in thine affliction, with which thine enemies will afflict thee in thy cities.... And the Lord Thy God shall scatter thee among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. Moreover, among those nations He will not give thee quiet, neither by any means shall the sole of thy feet have rest; and the Lord shall give thee there another and a misgiving heart, and failing eyes, and a wasting soul. And thy life shall be in suspense before thine eyes; and thou shalt be afraid by day and by night; and thou shalt have no assurance of thy life. In the morning thou shalt say, Would it were evening! and in the evening thou shalt say, Would it were morning! for the fear of thine heart with which thou shalt fear, and for the sights of thine eyes which thou shalt see" (Deut. 28:56, 57, 64-67).

The Attempt of Bar-Kochba.

When 65 years had passed, the Jews again rebelled against the Romans, under the leadership of the fanatic Bar-Kochba ("Son of the Star"), and were again brought low by the Romans. At that time the Emperor Hadrian commanded that Jerusalem be utterly demolished and that its streets be ploughed up, as a sign of the city's complete annihilation. On the ruins of Jerusalem a new Roman colony was founded, Aelia Capitolina; and the Jews were forbidden, under pain of death, to go anywhere near it. Only on one day (the 10th of August, the day of the burning of the first temple by Nebuchadnezzar and of the second temple by the Romans) was it permitted them, on payment of a set fee, to look from afar upon their former capital, at the gates of which an image of an animal abominable to them had been set up.

The falling-away of the Jews with respect to the Faith and the Christian Church resulted in the Christians being freed, if only in part, from their most wicked and inveterate enemies when their place of assembly was destroyed; and it aided, again only in part, the cleansing of the holy Faith in the thought and consciousness of its first followers, from the admixture of Judaism, which held itself aloof in so-called rabbinism. The Jewish rabbis were not brought to their senses by the terrible retribution which fell upon the Jews. They pointed to the Jews' insufficient care in carrying out the rites of the Mosaic Law as the reason for the wrath of heaven. In Tiberias, where, after the destruction of Jerusalem, the more prominent rabbis repaired, a school was founded, in which this predilection for the dead letter of the Law, for ritual, without understanding its meaning, reached an extreme degree of development and found its expression in the Talmud. This tendency of Jewish rabbinism moved the Jews farther away from the spirit of the Faith of Christ.

The prophet Daniel, Ananias, Azarias and Misael, in front of King Nebuchadnezzar

O wondrous prophet, thou didst behold the Unapproachable One, the just Judge, sitting on a throne, surrounded by angels. And marveling at the awesome and terrible sight, thou didst describe it for all who came after, recounting the second coming of our incarnate God.

...Now no one Church no attacks such as the ROCOR, because our very small ROCOR, to keep the canonical clean and free of heresy, it prevents anyone who is waiting for the Antichrist and who unite into one universal church at his coming. ROCA now want to split again, and if you can, then destroy. Because the world's evil wants to destroy the only Russian Orthodox that keeps the world from the coming of the Antichrist. Therefore, sending many of the problems in our ROCOR and incredibly strong attacks on the Metropolitan, head of the ROCOR...

...God is with us, and no one is on us! While our ROCA canonically clean and nezapyatnnaya betrayal of the Lord – ecumenism and heresies, God is with us and we keep. Therefore on. Valeria all turns out. How not to tear to shreds our ROCA, since 1970 – Preview OCA (so-called), our ROCA worth and continues to stand in the truth, in spite of all enemies...

from Joanna's notepad:

This editorial might be difficult to translate, because humor often gets lost in translations. But we can still see Fr. Victor's sense of humor even through the machine translation. He lists the terrible "sins" RTOC says our ROCA has committed – sins that need to be corrected before RTOC will consider entering dialogue. The final requirement made by the RTOC, Fr. Victor jokingly says, is that for all the terrible things Vldayka Agafangel has done, he needs to be given a penance of bread and water for 3 months, and then he must order the enthronement of the "lawful First Hierarch": Metropolitan Tikhon.

Next Fr. Victor goes back to being serious. He says that if we (ROCA) are not ready to commit the hara-kiri that RTOC wants us to do, then it is time for us to accept it as a given that our ROCA is not a splinter, but is the true ROCOR. And that the RTOC and the rest of the splits are only self-authorized groups.

In a letter to the primate RTOC clearly identified obstacles "ROCA (A)" to unite with RTOC and open the road to recovery coveted unity.

Obstacles:

1. The original uncanonical Synod of Metropolitan. Agafangel descent from arbitrarily PSEA in 2007

2. The original uncanonical all ROCA episcopate (except illegal in First Hierarch Bishop. Agafangel) apprehended Heaton defective, damaged uncanonical and heretical bishops of the Greek Synod in Resistance.

3. heretical Synod of the episcopate "ROCA (A)" kriptoekumenizmom therefore stay all the episcopate, clergy and laity of the ROCOR under the anathema of the ROCOR 1983 ecumenism.

There is nothing new in these complaints. About these obstacles RTOC said and repeated many times for the past seven years. The only thing that Archbishop Tikhon forgotten or sparing our feelings, love or appreciating endless rush of bishops "ROCA (A)" or not to shut the door to the unification of all, this one is not emphasized - a total loss of any kind was the whole canonical structure "of the ROCOR (A)" after the entry into communion with "samosvyatami-jumping."

The experience of the canonical relationship "ROCA (A)" with RTOC all these points clearly visible and confirmed by established practice:

RTOC receives clergy synod "ROCA (A)" after re-ordination as graceless. Metropolitan Synod. Agafangel thus recognizes the Synod RTOC equal-dignity and grace upon reception of the clergy and episcopate RTOC in existing orders through confession. Bishop Tikhon rightly confirms canonical law and his Synod and episcopate, and the fact of the appeal of the Council "of the ROCOR (A)", "This is confirmed by your appeal to me on behalf of your Council of Bishops'!

What needs to be done to consolidate "the ROCOR (A)" with RTOC

1.Soborno, on behalf of the "jurisdiction" to repent of sin "kriptoekumenizma."

2.Soborno, on behalf of the "jurisdiction" to repent of sin committed fraud during the formation of unauthorized gatherings PSEA, later turned into a bunch of arbitrarily "ROCA (A)."

3.Episkopat "ROCA (A)" shall in writing invalidated his ordination as bishop, and all committed to "a bishop" of the sacraments.

4.Rekomomu episcopate "ROCA (A)" to disband his synod, and then in the rank and rewards that each of them had on 17 May 2007, in a treacherous Lavrovskaya ROCA, with all its recom clergy and laity enter into the composition of the diocesan RTOC.

5.Rekomomu episcopate "ROCA (A)" after repeated Heaton RTOC find bishopric (en. Agafangel can be corrected through hirotesiyu), and then restore all of its Recom canonical clergy through repeated coats hirotesii and vows sacred and church ministers.

6. Bishop Agafangel, as the instigator of all this ugliness canon called "the ROCOR (A)", assign penance - to put on bread and water for three months, and then instruct the person to bring and to hold a second panagia and miter with a cross lawful First Hierarch at the upcoming enthronement Metropolitan Tikhon.

What is there vagueness? All clear as day!

If the bishops' ROCA (A) "is not ready to commit seppuku offered, it is time to grasp the obvious, that our Church - not a splinter, but it is the true ROCOR and is communicating with us, there are only self-authorized gatherings like RTOC and splits.

Although said about RTOC above, I want to add that their self-esteem and self-awareness of this church, our lack of causes to the Synod RTOC more and more respect.

Parasinagoga

Could you explain to me what is - a bunch of unauthorized calls itself"ROCA (A)" - a bunch of Agafangel-Pashkovsky?And there are a bunch of arbitrarily PSEA?How to succeed his father Valery Leonichevu in such a difficult situation to maintain the site Moscow ROCOR parishes "New Martyrs and Confessors Russian"?I'm sorry, that did not immediately notice the reference to the letter, which to some extent give answers to my perhaps not entirely relevant questions.If you count that I'm taking up your time, you can not answer.

Re: Parasinagoga

ROCA (A) - How you refer to our Church, has never been "unauthorized gathering."Our ROCA - a remnant of the Church itself, which did not go for a connection to Mospatrihiey and remained true to the precepts of the fathers of the ROCA.

In May 2007, our ROCA split and most of it has made the union with the MP, sidetracked Sergianist and ecumenical heresy most of ROCA.Not only that, the bishops took away the people of heresy, so still and the covenant of the fathers of the ROCA - our First Hierarch and outstanding arhieerev, they also lischili Russian people the possibility of revival.According to the teachings of the fathers of the ROCA if achieved by Mospatriarhii repentance Sergianism in and out of the WCC, the Russian has been updated, and the Russian people will rise up and get a new king, who revived the Orthodox kingdom.The MP and ROCOR MP carefully concealed this doctrine, because union was made not in the truth, and for the wants of the authorities of this world.

And that says a schismatic Archbishop RTOC, which is also split from the ROCA, committed in 1994, and then join to the division of Metropolitan Vitaly, who created ROCA (V), and actually log in as ROCA (I) and from which the figures from RTOC broke, it seems in 2004, so it became simply parasinagogoy, and so they look for errors in the canonical ROCOR net balance, which is due to the PSEA and V All-Diaspora Council and managed (these acts) to maintain a small balance canonical ROCOR.Canonicity our ROCOR recognized Greek Synod in Resistance, the Romanian Old Calendar Church and the Old Calendar Bulgarian Orthodox Church and came back to ROCOR in communication, in which they were composed before the split and union with the MP.So under the omophorion of ROCOR Metropolitan Agafangel it has been impeccably renovated in the old form as before the split.

And what is there to write our ROCA dissenters from parasinagi does not matter.The dog barks, but the caravan moves on.

Now no one attacks the Church is not such as to ROCOR, because our very small ROCOR has kept clean and without canonical heresy, it prevents everyone who is waiting for the Antichrist and who unite into one universal church when the parish.Now ROCA want to split again, and if you can, then destroy it.Because the world's evil wants to destroy the only Russian Orthodox that keeps the world from the coming of the Antichrist.Therefore, sending many of the problems in our ROCA and incredibly strong attack on the metropolitan, head of the ROCOR.

How to succeed his father Valery Leonichevu in such a difficult situation to maintain the site Moscow ROCOR parishes "New Martyrs and Confessors Russian?" ---------------------------- - -

God is with us, and no one is on us!While our ROCA canonically clean and nezapyatnnaya betrayal of the Lord - ecumenism and heresies, God is with us and we have stores.Therefore on.Valeria all turns out.How not to tear to shreds our ROCA, since 1970 - Preview OCA (so-called), our ROCA is and continues to stand in the truth, in spite of all enemies.

"Behold, I come quickly: hedgehog IMach, but no one is conceive your crown."Dear orthodoxi_news.Today I received from you the Apostolic admonition that "someone who is a slave" for quoting 100% Yid borrowed from the Old Testament text Blogersha erefii northern capital.The Old Testament did not read, did not study, guided by the law of the New Testament: "Old man in bou postponing new obletsemsya."I agree that I am ignorant.Remove this genealogy.However, it had a census of the three bloggers from the network of tolerance.Tell me honestly, if I am ignorant and slowpoke, maybe I better to limit its activities in the network only citing materials not related to the fact that I was in their misunderstanding is not competent?I would be grateful to you for the answer, knowing that you lack the time to communicate with the likes of me, "psevdoortodoksami."

In the Gospel of Matthew that is usually called the Sermon on the Mount, recorded the following words of Jesus: "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets.I came not to abolish but to fulfill.I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, even the smallest letter, not even a dash disappears in the Law.All this will come to pass! "(Matthew 5: 17-18).

The fact that the Old Testament and the New Testament are interrelated.If you are familiar with the Old Testament, you will become more clear what is happening in the New Testament, and it was hidden from you.

I love to read the Old Testament because it offers have been made heaven, the angels, the earth and people.It is interesting and instructive to read the Old Testament, which teaches people to wisdom and history of the Orthodox Church and relii.

Note that in the Pentateuch does not the word "Jew" (tserk. keywords.), But only Israelite.The fact that the Jews usurped the Pentateuch and called it the Torah, the real test is that they have lost and now publish and republish commentaries on the Torah that they have, as well as on the reinterpretation of interpretation highlights the fact that the Torah they do not need.

But in the translation of the Pentateuch preserved starogrecheskih and Orthodox have it.I'm sorry I can not tell you more, because it is very long and hard to write.

If the Orthodox Church took the Old Testament in such a way as it is, so be it, and every reading of the Old Testament is instructive for the Orthodox.

Place the material, but look where and who take their places on their blogs.You know, like in Psalm 1 and the prophet of King David, by the way!The Old Testament :)

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers,2 but in the law of the Lord his and his law he meditates day and night!

Do you believe that God, who created man, heaven and earth and everything on it, other than in the New Testament?

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THE SISTER CHURCHES

The True Orthodox Churches of Romania, and Bulgaria, and with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and with the Synod in Resistance, are called by the Grace of the Lord to coexist in Mysteriological communion.

from §4 of “Schedule of Steps in the Union Process” Feb. 2014

VL AGAFANGEL PRAYER

Lord Jesus Christ, Holy Theotokos and all the Saints: keep our souls unharmed from the destructive influences of globalism, ecumenism, and sergianism, and give all of us the strength to endure the latest onset of persecution of the Church of Christ. Amen

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"I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.”

St. John Chrysostom

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"If we have a good priest (or bishop), we give thanks to God. If a bad one, we endure him".

- old Russian saying

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"And here is something to which I would like to draw your attention to – something about which very many do not think about. Father Archimandrite Constantine, whom probably many of you know, the reposed editor of the journal “Orthodox Rus’”, a profound Christian mind, considered that the most terrible among all the achievements of the communists was that the communists created their own false-church, a soviet church which they shoved onto the unfortunate people in place of the genuine Church which went underground into the catacombs. Do not think that I am exaggerating or that Father Constantine was exaggerating!

Once, in the year 1918, a Pan-Russian Church Council was held. At this Council, the entire Pan-Russian Church together with its first holy hierarch, Patriarch Tikhon anathematized, excommunicated from the Church not only the theomachists and godless ones themselves, but also all those who would collaborate with them."

~St. Philaret of NY

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"To the Russians abroad, it has been granted to shine in the whole world with the light of Orthodoxy, so that other peoples, seeing their good deeds, might glorify our Father Who is in heaven, and thus obtain salvation for themselves. But if it does not perform this purpose and even abases Orthodoxy by its life, the Diaspora will have before itself two paths: either to be converted to the path of repentance, having acquired forgiveness through prayer to God and being reborn spiritually and to being capable of giving rebirth to our suffering homeland; or else being rejected by God and remaining in banishment, persecuted by everyone, until gradually it will degenerate and disappear from the face of the earth."

from Vladika John's report to the All-Diaspora Sobor in 1938

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The apostasy of our times, to a degree unique in Christian history, is proceeding not primarily by false teachings or canonical deviations, but rather by a false understanding of Orthodoxy on the part of those who may even be perfectly Orthodox in their dogmatic teaching and canonical situation. A correct "Orthodoxy" deprived of the Spirit of true Christianity—this is the meaning of Sergianism, and it cannot be fought by calling it a "heresy," which it is not, nor by detailing its canonical irregularities, which are only incidental to something much more important.

- Russia's Catacomb Saints

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Let it not be thought, however, that I affirm that it is necessary to prize every peace. For I know that there is a splendid disagreement and the most destructive unanimity. Yet one must love a good peace which has a good purpose: unity with God.

-St. Gregory the Theologian

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... To pious Christians the fact that the world has fallen into godlessness is to them obvious, and they are ready to see it as an unfortunate historical inevitability ...

Professor Viktor Trostinkov

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If you want to have assurance that you are saved, repent now that you are young and healthy and it is manifest that you left sin while you were still able to sin. But if you persevere in sin into your old age, why then you did not leave sin, but rather sin left you.

St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain

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Live in peace not only with your friends, but also with your enemies; but only your personal enemies, and not the enemies of God.

St. Theodosius of the Kiev Caves

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Judge not according to appearances, but judge righteous judgment.

St. John 7:24

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"If Russia is not ressurrected, a new Golgotha threatens the whole world."

Priest Vladimir Evsukoff 1980†

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A man who does not express a desire to link himself to the latest of the saints (in time) in all love and humility owing to a certain distrust in himself, will never be linked to the preceding saints and will not be admitted to their succession, even though he thinks he possesses all possible faith and love for God and for all His saints. He will be cast out of their midst, as one who refused to take humbly the place allotted to him by God before all time, and to link himself to that latest saint (in time) as God had disposed.

St. Symeon the New Theologian

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SCOBA, to which world orthodoxy gives such great significance, reproaching us for not belonging to it, actually is in no way a canonical organ. The Russian Church Outside of Russia was invited to take part in these conferences; however, our Church refused to send representatives there after clergy of the Moscow Patriarchate were invited. "We never and nowhere will sit at one table with them; by this our spiritual communion with the Universal Church is not broken."

Archpriest George Grabbe 1969

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"Let us always thank the Lord that we are in the Holy Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, which throughout the 80 years of its existence has trodden the straight, royal path of God, without ever turning aside and losing its way."

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The passions lying hidden in the soul provide the demons with the means of arousing impassioned thoughts in us. Then, fighting the intellect through these thoughts, they force it to give its assent to sin. When it has been overcome, they lead it to sin in the mind; and when this has been done they induce it, captive as it is, to commit the sin in action. Having thus desolated the soul by means of these thoughts, the demons then retreat, taking the thoughts with them, and only the spectre or idol of sin remains in the intellect. Referring to this our Lord says, 'When you see the abominable idol of desolation standing in the holy place (let him who reads understand)... (Matt 24:15). For man's intellect is a holy place and a temple of God in which the demons, having desolated the soul by impassioned thoughts, set up the idol of sin. That these things have already taken place in history no one, I think, who has read Josephus will doubt; though some say that they will also come to pass in the time of the Antichrist.

Philokalia

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There are three things that impel us towards what is holy: natural instincts, angelic powers, and probity of intention. Natural instincts impel us, when, for example, we do to others what we would wish them to do to us (cf. Luke 6:31), or when we see someone suffering deprivation or in need and naturally feel compassion. Angelic powers impel us when, being ourselves impelled to something worthwhile, we find we are providentially helped and guided. We are impelled by probity of intention when, discriminating between good and evil, we choose the good.

Philokalia

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The outward Gospel of social idealism is a symptom of loss of faith.

Fr. Seraphim Rose

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Impurity of intellect consists first in having false knowledge, ...

Philokalia

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Isn't Marx really the third of a trio with Darwin and Freud as a practical source in the war against revealed truth?

Fr. Seraphim Rose

Letters, 1972

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To: ROCA members from the MP

"You have to understand that you have long been in a false church, which implants in its members' souls, a false spirituality, which in turn takes root and grows stronger and stronger, the longer a man stays in it."

Bishop Athanasius, 2014

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Mankind has gone mad, and we see with horror the abyss into which it is being drawn. Let us lay aside every worldly care, and let us fall down in prayer and readiness for the dread Judgment of the Lord. Death will not come with bombs and poisons. Death has already come and take up residence with us and in us, and has made corpses of us, Mammon has overwhelmed this sinful world, which is dominated by Queen Science, Lucifer himself, which with one hand makes medicines and machines for man's foolish happiness and with the other terrorizes him by means of the bomb! Such is the sorry state of knowledge and the agony of the world through and through. Let us lift up our hearts.

-Photios Kontoglou (†1965) letter to Dr. Cavarnos dated 5/10/57

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"Psychopaths are a superior subspecies. We transcend humanity. We are Nature's Supermen. We deserve the subservience and availability of everyone around us. Luckily, every year 100-million people are born throughout the world. We have 100-million new choices every year."

-Sam Vaknin, self-realized psychopath

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Our Saviour placed the Church in the world in order to save the world, and Satan is always trying to place the world into the Church in order to destroy the Church.

attributed to Desert Fathers

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"If you see lying and hypocrisy, expose them in front of all, even if they are clothed inpurple and fine linen."

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